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Chapter 9: Refuting permanent functional phenomena
The explanation of ultimate truths begins with verses on the refutation of true existence by…
View PostEight verses of mind training: Verses 3-6
Explaining different afflictive emotions and their respective antidotes. Using difficult people and situations for our…
View PostEight verses of mind training: Verse 2
Discussion on forgiving and apologizing. Seeing that cherishing others is the source of happiness and…
View PostEight verses of mind training: Verse 1
Our mind creates our experience of happiness or suffering based on how we interpret the…
View PostReview of Chapter 7: Verses 156-175
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
View PostReview of Chapter 7: Verses 151-155
A review of Chapter 7 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way" focuses on…
View PostChapters 8-9: Verses 200-201
An explanation of the three kinds of compassion, dependent arising, making ourselves suitable vessels, and…
View PostLiving with loss
How to work with the emotions when we lose the things we are attached to.…
View PostChapter 8: Verses 197-200
The relationship between realizing emptiness and generating bodhicitta, and why the end of afflictions is…
View PostEthics and right livelihood
A response to a student's question on what to do if one's loved ones are…
View PostThe mark of a successful life
Shows the different criteria that influence one's choice of profession and activities.
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